Need a router for home gaming server

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
D

digitaljuice

Honorable
Dec 11, 2012
15
0
10,520
I have a great internet connection at home and I wish to host a gaming server off of it. It will host around 100-140 people at max maybe more with a teamspeak3 server. I know I have the bandwidth available with my 20 mb upload since the bandwidth for the game is relatively low.

However I will need a router that can handle all of those connections without crapping out. Can anyone recommend one? Obviously the router given by my ISP will not do the job.
 
Solution
D
Sort by date Sort by votes
B

bill001g

Titan
Aug 9, 2012
28,306
2,749
125,640
Hopefully you do not have dsl since that limits your selection of routers unless you can set your isp device to bridge mode.

You questions is hard to say because consumer router manufacture seldom publish information like this. You look at specs on firewalls and they very clearly tell you how many VPN sessions or data rates with nat session on their models....of course these are huge numbers compared to what you are looking at.

The consumer routers if they give anything show throughput data for a single session which is very different that having 1000 sessions open.

Pretty much the bottle neck is going to be caused by the NAT since the router has to keep track of all these sessions. This is going to be a cpu and memory issue mainly.

If you are sure 20m is enough upload I suspect any of the higher end consumer routers will do. You likely will hit the 20m before you exceed the router capcity. If you were talking 1g google fiber then that would be a different story.

I think the netgear nighthawk still has the fasted clocked cpu...but I can't keep up with this. I know netgear claims this router can do nat faster than other routers because of some hardware accelerator chip in the box. There is not a lot of technical details on that so its hard to say if it would make any difference in your case.

Still I suspect many other routers can also do what you need.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
king3pj

king3pj

Distinguished
Feb 19, 2013
1,638
0
20,460
Keep in mind that if you have a residential internet connection running a server off it is almost definitely against the terms of service you agreed to with your ISP. You may want to think about switching to business internet if you are serious about this.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
D

digitaljuice

Honorable
Dec 11, 2012
15
0
10,520


from what little ive read, apparently routing lots of connections doesnt take much CPU but rather more RAM than anything which is why I looked at the router I linked above. I did check out the nighthawk but for double the price and just some wifi with half the ram I wasn't sure if that is what I really needed. My current router from my ISP can do bridging so I am good there thankfully.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
B

bill001g

Titan
Aug 9, 2012
28,306
2,749
125,640
I wish I knew something about that router. It appears to be a actual router as compared to most other things that call themselves routers but are gateways.
I have used lots of ubiquiti outdoor equipment but never their routers, their bridge equipment works very well and is stable.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
kelix09

kelix09

Reputable
Jul 18, 2014
135
0
4,710
i prefer netgear routers as they perform good and very easy to use,firmware update is a breeze and all steam ports and other most common gaming ports are open already

i have a xbox 360 hooked up to it,on pc play tf2,cs,cod4,world in conflict with no problems
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom